Likely a modern form influenced by Surayya or Soraya, names associated with the Pleiades constellation.
Soriyah is a richly layered name that blends the ancient Persian and Arabic name Soraya — meaning "the Pleiades," the famous star cluster of the constellation Taurus — with the Hebrew suffix -yah, meaning "of God" or "belonging to Yahweh." The Pleiades have held sacred significance across dozens of cultures for millennia, serving as navigation guides for sailors, markers of the agricultural calendar, and symbols of sisterhood and guidance. The Persian name Soraya entered romantic legend most famously through Soraya Esfandiary Bakhtiari, the tragic second queen of Iran, whose beauty and her ultimately childless marriage to Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi made her one of the twentieth century's most poignant royal figures.
The Hebrew suffix -yah, added to create Soriyah, situates the name within a long tradition of theophoric Hebrew names — names that carry a divine attribute. Names ending in -yah appear throughout the Hebrew Bible: Isaiah, Jeremiah, Nehemiah, Elijah. By fusing the celestial imagery of Soraya with this sacred suffix, Soriyah carries a meaning one might read as "the stars of God" or "God's heavenly light."
In contemporary usage, Soriyah appears in multicultural communities where families seek names that honor both Middle Eastern and Abrahamic spiritual traditions. It reads as feminine, luminous, and deeply meaningful — a name that carries both the science of the night sky and the intimacy of personal faith, simultaneously cosmopolitan and spiritually grounded.